Amazon S3; there’s a holdup on the buckets, Dear Liza…

Amazon’s S3 service has been down since 9.00am PDT but I only noticed an hour ago (2.30pm PDT) when a EC2 instance launch failed.

Am I worried? No, but as I become more and more dependent on such services, perhaps I will, but then again at least I’ll not be alone. WordPress.com and countless others will be using the same excuse to their customers and unlike Renginald Perrin who had a different excuse every day for his train’s late arrival…